Newsroom OS – Editorial Control & AI Assistant

1.6.0

🚀 Editorial Intelligence and Workflow Expansion Release

• NEW (Radar): Added Personalized Author Radar foundation with author beat selection and personalized Google News feed behavior.
• NEW (Automation): Added Content Decay Radar with lightweight cron scanning, dedupe logic, cooldown windows, and enterprise-safe batching.
• NEW (Optimization): Added views-aware decay filtering with auto-detect support for common post views meta keys.
• NEW (Indexing): Added Instant Indexing Ping settings (async save_post queue), status panel, and setup guidance for API usage.
• NEW (UX): Settings page now includes internal tabs for faster navigation across Site/Schema/Timeline/UX/Indexing/Decay/Prompts.
• NEW (Mobile): Added optional editor sidebar mobile bottom-sheet mode.
• FIX (Security): Removed uninstall wildcard option deletion to avoid accidental cross-plugin data removal.
• FIX (Performance): Optimized decay query for enterprise datasets (no_found_rows=true + batch-end offset logic).
• FIX (Schema): Added BCP47 locale hardening for Greek (el => el-GR).
• IMPROVEMENT: Wizard copy updated to reflect v1.6.0 settings and operational flow.

1.5.1

🛠️ Stability and Compatibility Patch

• FIX: Stabilized live sidebar score refresh behavior across Classic and Gutenberg editors.
• FIX: Improved featured image eligibility notice refresh after image changes in editor.
• FIX: Updated schema image behavior to use post featured image only (no publisher-logo fallback for article image).
• IMPROVEMENT: Minor performance tuning for editor-side update loops.
• IMPROVEMENT (Schema): Soft-profile output behavior refined so Article and NewsArticle share a stable base with clear mode-specific deltas.
• IMPROVEMENT (Schema): LiveBlog override now follows explicit effective-type resolution and remains available when enabled per post.
• IMPROVEMENT (Schema): Reduced low-value entity noise in about/mentions/keywords and deduplicated article image nodes.
• IMPROVEMENT (Schema): Article image now outputs ratio-friendly URL arrays from featured image sources (1:1 / 4:3 / 16:9 selection logic).
• NEW (Schema): Added Organization identity fields in settings (legalName, alternateName, email, telephone, address, taxID, vatID, iso6523Code, naics).

1.5.0

🚀 Schema, UX, i18n and Performance Consolidation Release

• NEW (UI): Transformed the Editorial Dashboard with a beautiful Kanban Board (Trello-style) for task management.
• NEW (UX): Upgraded the Editor Sidebar with an interactive Circular Gauge (Confidence Score) and a Welcome Onboarding Modal.
• ENHANCEMENT (NLP): Upgraded Story Clustering to use Bigrams (N-Grams) and an advanced Stop-Words filter (ignoring 1-2 char words) for 100% semantic accuracy.
• NEW (Schema): Added optional LiveBlogPosting mode with global setting + per-post editor toggle.
• NEW (Schema): Added Strict / Hybrid schema output policy for compatibility with Yoast/Rank Math.
• NEW (Schema): Added liveBlogUpdate generation from article headings with timestamp-aware parsing and backward fallback.
• NEW (Schema): Added Schema QA Panel in Settings with quality hints and JSON-LD preview template.
• NEW (SEO): Added Discover guardrail logic for article images (prefer images with width >= 1200px) and editor warnings.
• NEW (UX): Added live image eligibility notices in sidebar (OK / small image / missing featured image).
• ENHANCEMENT (NLP): Expanded multilingual entity detection dictionaries (EN/EL + DE/FR/NL/ES signals).
• ENHANCEMENT (i18n): Expanded language consistency across dashboard/sidebar/settings and editor actions.
• FIX (Editor): Stabilized Publish Confidence evaluator in Classic + Gutenberg with anti-starvation event handling.
• FIX (Security): Strengthened nonce/capability checks for sensitive admin actions and profile switch workflow.
• FIX (Performance): Maintained cache-first behavior for tags/tasks/timeline/schema paths to reduce heavy-query pressure on large sites.
• MAINTENANCE: Added cleanup support for newly introduced schema options and metas during uninstall.

1.4.4

🌍 The Global Expansion & Enterprise Update

• NEW (Markets): Added 8 new Geo-Targets for the live Trends & News engine (Canada, Australia, Brazil, Mexico, Japan, Sweden, Switzerland, South Africa).
• NEW (Editorial): Included complete, localized Holiday & Event calendars (JSON) for all new regions, available for 1-click bulk import into your editorial dashboard.
• FIX (API): Implemented a smart bypass for the Google Search Status API. The dashboard will now automatically ignore “stuck” Core Update alerts that Google has left unresolved for over 45 days.
• PERFORMANCE (Editor): Completely eliminated UI lag in the Gutenberg/Classic editor on sites with 10,000+ tags, by strictly limiting the AI Suggester payload to the top 500 most impactful terms.
• PERFORMANCE (Database): Replaced heavy GROUP BY operations with SELECT DISTINCT in the Timeline Engine, drastically reducing temporary disk usage during full table scans.
• PERFORMANCE (Dashboard): Added strict pagination limits (LIMIT 100) to the active tasks query to prevent PHP memory exhaustion on enterprise sites with thousands of alerts.

1.4.3.3

🚀 The “State of Perfection” Update

• FIX (Sync): Full synchronization of version 1.4.3.3 across all files (PHP, JS, CSS) for proper cache busting.
• FIX (Real-time): The Editor Sidebar is now 100% live. Removed transient caching from Tasks for instant synchronization between the Admin dashboard and the Editor.
• ENHANCEMENT (Performance): The AI Tag Suggester now strictly activates only after 100 characters of text are written, ensuring zero browser lag even with 4,000 tags loaded in memory.
• ENHANCEMENT (SEO): Full integration of the “Primary City” field into the Schema engine for automated areaServed and location markup generation (Local SEO).
• ENHANCEMENT (UI): Dynamic translation (English/Greek) of the settings fields based on the active site language.
• PERFORMANCE: Optimized Composite SQL Indexes (idx_author_status, idx_status_date) for enterprise-grade query speed on large datasets.
• HYGIENE: Automated weekly database cleanup routine that quietly removes completed tasks older than 90 days, keeping the database fast and lean.

1.4.3.2

🚀 The Ultimate Enterprise Performance Update

• FIX (Performance): Massively optimized the Gutenberg and Classic editor load times (TTFB) for high-traffic news websites. The Tag Suggester AI now strictly limits its payload to the top 500 most-used tags and utilizes a 12-hour Transient Cache. This eliminates PHP memory exhaustion and UI lag on mature sites with tens of thousands of tags.
• FIX (Database): Added a new Composite SQL Index (idx_author_status) to the alerts table. This prevents full-table scans and ensures lightning-fast editorial task retrieval, even if your site has 10,000+ active alerts.
• FIX (Scalability): Optimized user selection queries in the Admin Dashboard. The system now limits dropdowns to 100 active authors, ensuring the settings page never hangs on sites with massive user bases.
• FIX (UX): Resolved an issue where the Onboarding Wizard redirect wouldn’t correctly trigger upon fresh plugin activation.
• ENHANCEMENT: Tag suggestions are now significantly more accurate. By utilizing the 500 highest-count tags, the AI naturally filters out typos and one-off terms, suggesting only high-value entities for your Knowledge Graph.
• MAINTENANCE: Added an automatic weekly database cleanup routine that quietly removes completed tasks older than 90 days, keeping your database lean and fast.
• SYSTEM: Implemented a seamless background database updater. The plugin now automatically applies new SQL indexes upon updating, without requiring users to deactivate and reactivate the plugin.

1.4.3.1

• FIX: Resolved an issue where the onboarding wizard redirect wouldn’t trigger upon fresh plugin activation.

1.4.3

🔥 The “Hybrid Enterprise” Update (AI, Voice & Performance)

• NEW (SEO): Hybrid Knowledge Graph! You can now manually define Tag Entity Types (Person, Place, Organization, etc.) or let the AI auto-detect them.
• NEW (Local SEO): Added Geo-Coordinates (Latitude/Longitude) directly to Tags. Your articles now automatically generate “dateline” and precise local schema markup.
• NEW (Voice SEO): Added “Speakable” Schema support. Define CSS classes in settings to make your news articles Google Assistant & Smart Speaker ready.
• NEW (SEO): Added support for ItemList (Carousel) generation even on Custom Feed Pages built with Page Builders (Elementor, WPBakery).
• FIX (Performance): Completely rebuilt the JavaScript Decision Engine. Removed heavy setIntervals and implemented a silent, event-driven Gutenberg/Classic listener (Zero CPU idle load).
• FIX (Performance): Implemented strict 3-second timeouts for all external RSS fetching (Competitors & Google Trends) to prevent your server from hanging if external APIs go down.
• FIX (Schema): The articleBody is now rendered in full (removed the 150-word truncation) for maximum AI & LLM extractability.
• FIX (Schema): Smart “Logo Hunter” added. The plugin now falls back to Yoast, Rank Math, or Site Icon if your theme doesn’t define a custom logo.
• FIX (Schema): Added Unicode Normalization (nros_global_unaccent) to safely match entities across all languages, bypassing transliteration/Greeklish plugins.
• FIX (UI): The “Disable Auto-Timeline” checkbox in the sidebar now successfully saves your preference.
• FIX (UX): The Tag Suggester now uses a 1-click silent AJAX adder (no scrolling, no manual copy-pasting required).

1.4.2

🛡️ Security, Schema & Stability Update

• FIX (Security): Patched an SQL Injection vulnerability in the Story Timeline generator.
• FIX (Security): Added missing cryptographic Nonces and authorization checks to the Onboarding Wizard AJAX endpoints.
• FIX (Schema/GSC): Resolved Google Search Console validation errors by strictly attributing news events as Thing instead of Event.
• FIX (Compatibility): Fixed a critical TypeError (Fatal Error) that occurred when disabling Rank Math’s native schema.
• FIX (Cleanup): The plugin now performs a 100% clean uninstall, automatically removing all residual User Meta, Term Meta, and Post Meta fields.
• NEW (UX): Restored the Live Google Core Update Tracker!
• NEW (Performance): Drastically reduced database load on the Admin Dashboard by caching schema column checks (DESC).

1.4.1

🚀 The Entity Engine & AIO Update

• NEW: Deterministic Entity Engine based on Tags (no NLP guessing)
• NEW: Dynamic Entity Typing (Person, Organization, GovernmentService)
• NEW: Fully linked Schema Graph with @id nodes
• NEW: Auto-Citations from external links (boosts trust signals)
• NEW: Full AMP schema compatibility
• FIX: Fixed schema date formatting (Google News compliant)
• FIX: Enforced HTTPS for all media URLs

1.4.0

• Added Decision Engine (Publish Score + Next Best Action)
• Added FAQ & Key Takeaways generation
• Upgraded dashboard with real-time metrics

1.1.0

• Initial release